Rival Boxing Gear

The Air Punch Mitts provide maximum protection when training with powerful punches thanks to the innovative Air Cushion System.

The secret of these mitts lies in the way the foam inside the gloves is cut and layered, allowing air itself to act as a natural cushioning and absorption system.

Once the outer layer of the glove is assembled, the Air Cushion System ensures maximum comfort and protection.

Available in the RPM3 Air Mitts

Since the first boxing gloves were made, there has always been a fundamental design flaw. To be precise: the spot where the striking part of the glove met the wrist shaft never aligned exactly with the boxer’s wrist.

Trainers therefore had to always lace the gloves above that spot and apply tape to firmly secure the glove around the wrist and provide the much-needed wrist support.

That’s why Rival has revised the design and assembly of gloves. Inspired by the RS1 and by making the glove body shorter and the cuff higher, the Angled Lace Track – angled at 15 degrees – was created.

This innovative, creative, and logical design ensures that the glove fits exactly around the boxer’s wrist when laced, for a perfect anatomical fit and the desired wrist support!

Available in:

• RS100 Professional boxing gloves
• RS1 Ultra 2.0 boxing gloves
• RFX Guerrero boxing gloves SF-H
• RFX Guerrero boxing gloves HDE-F

Rival Boxing pays attention to the smallest details in ergonomics and anatomy. For example, in some gloves they cut the wrist at a 15º angle to follow the natural angle of a boxer’s hands. With this detail in mind, Rival has incorporated the tapered design into the gloves.

Take a look at the back of your hand: you’ll see that the line from the top of your pinky to your wrist forms an angle, and from your wrist to your forearm there’s another angle. Unlike most other manufacturers, Rival takes this into account when designing the gloves. Because the wrist is narrower than the cuff around the forearm, Rival gloves fit more snugly around a boxer’s wrist, providing maximum comfort, stability, and performance!

Available in:

• RS2V Super Sparring gloves
• RS1 Ultra 2.0 boxing gloves

Rival strives in as many product lines as possible to guarantee an ergonomic and anatomical design.

This principle forms the basis of our design philosophy and ensures that Rival Boxing Gear pays special attention to every aspect of every new idea – whether it is the correct anatomical fit for our RNFL groin protector or gloves like the RB5 punching mitts that fit securely so you can make a perfect fist.

After tying gloves thousands of times during his 40 years in the sport, and after examining the various lacing systems of training gloves throughout history, Russ began to realize that there was not only a pattern but also a reason and logic behind the way gloves were laced.

When Rival developed the very first sparring glove, Russ (CEO and founder of Rival) wanted to implement several very important things.

He wanted to make a glove that:

1. performed just as well, or even better, than any other sparring glove on the market.
2. could be used round after round with full confidence by top professionals.
3. lasted longer than anything they had ever used before.
4. contained a never-before-seen technology and design that Russ had envisioned for at least 15 years.

Thus, the "ERGO LACE TRACK SYSTEM" was born. By using a deep, crossing pattern around the wrist and an ergonomically correct 15-degree angle at the wrist, we created the perfect fit for tightening a lace-up glove while keeping the laces hidden at the same time.

This paved the way for the birth of Rival's very first sparring glove, the RS1.

This concept was so successful that our entire high-end line is built around this excellent design.

The highlight of this came a few years later with the introduction of the "Angled Lace Track" in the professional fight gloves. Since then, we have also applied the "Angled Lace Track" to the RS100 sparring glove and even adjusted the way we use the "Angled Design" on our velcro gloves.

All these designs are inventions of Rival and our own original concepts. These elements have now become industry standards, as more and more brands try to enter the market with the same ideas that Rival developed more than 20 years ago.

Available in:

• RS1 Ultra 2.0 boxing gloves

Innovation has always been central at Rival Boxing. In fact, our market entry was based on a revolutionary concept that set us apart from the rest.

Rival's vision remains unchanged nearly twenty years later. Take, for example, the development of the Ergo Strap System.

Before Rival Boxing introduced this system, most boxing gloves with Velcro used a conventional strap of 5 or 7.5 cm to secure the glove.

This strap did little more than that and offered no wrist support or stability. With a bit of thinking, a simple innovation emerged; Rival Boxing redefined what "normal" is.

The key to the success of the Ergo Strap System lies in its simplicity: a conventional strap with a uniform width was replaced by a strap that is wider on the palm side of the wrist and measures 10 cm at its widest point. This provides more comfort, stability, and wrist support. It has since become an industry standard.

Available in:

• RS80V Impulse Sparring boxing gloves
• RB50 Bag gloves

The Ergo Strap Xtreme System offers the best ergonomic fit, tension, and support you need in a glove with a single strap and Velcro closure instead of laces.

By increasing the width of the strap, especially at the wrist, you get maximum support and protection with a glove featuring a single strap.

Available in:

• RS2V Super Sparring boxing gloves

The RS100 sparring glove is one of Rival's showpieces, thanks in part to the innovative and ingenious Ergonomic True Fist Construction system.

When you place your hand in this glove, you can comfortably close your fist for the most natural fist position possible, without annoying pressure from the foam and without having to bend the glove before your hand is in the natural punching position.

The principles of Ergonomic True Fist Construction ensure that you can freely open and close your hand without disturbing the construction of the glove's hand compartment. Comfort, safety, and maximum performance are guaranteed!

Available in:

• RS100 Professional boxing gloves

In as many products as possible, Rival strives to apply the principles of Feather Lite: providing our customers with maximum performance and protection combined with the lightest possible material weight.

We look for ways to reduce the size and weight of our gear to ensure efficiency.

If we can find a lighter, thinner material that offers the same performance and durability as a heavier or traditional material like leather, we do it. Innovation and attention to detail, that’s the Rival way!

Available in:

• RS100 Professional boxing gloves
• RHG100 Professional Headgear
• RNFL100 Professional groinguard
• RPM100 Professional punching mitts

Intelli-Shock D3O™ is the best shock-absorbing padding in the world.

Rival was the first, and remains the only, company in the boxing and MMA world to use it.

This incredible material has been a staple in some of our headgear and boxing gloves for over ten years.

How effective is Intelli-Shock? Well, with about 6 mm (a quarter inch) or 3 mm (an eighth inch) of Intelli-Shock padding, you get the same protection as with about 25 mm (an inch) of other padding.

This is because it uses Intelligent Shock Absorption™, a patented shock-absorbing material developed with intelligent molecules.

At low speeds, the molecules in D3O™ move freely, making it soft and flexible, while at high speeds the molecules lock together and form an excellent shock absorber.

D3O™ offers significantly more protection than conventional foams, making it the perfect solution to improve internal protection in equipment and accessories.

The RB10 Intelli-Shock boxing gloves, which use this technology, harden on contact.

This not only reduces the amount of energy transferred to the body by 40%*, which means a drastic reduction in impact load, but also makes the glove about 38% lighter than regular boxing gloves with gel technology available on the market.

Available in:

• RB50 bag gloves
• RB10 bag gloves
• RHG10 headgear
• RFX Guerrero bag gloves
• RPM10 punching mitts

Rival is convinced that the ingenious parabolic design of the RPM5 punching shields is the key to their popularity in the martial arts world.

These shields resemble a satellite dish – the unique and original parabolic design has a curved front and a curved back that fits perfectly in the palm of your hand.

When you wear these shields, the parabolic design acts like a catching glove, allowing you to perfectly absorb punches.

The shields are made of thin, hard foam with high density and reduce the impact on your elbows and shoulders.

Available in:

• RPM5 punching mitts

When it became popular to make punching shields with a curved front, Rival Boxing quickly realized that this created a gap between the wrist and the punching shield.

The result was that your arm and wrist did not get the necessary support during a punch.

The solution to this problem? Rival designed the Wedge – a piece of high-density foam that fits exactly into the space between the punching shield and the wrist, allowing you to better stabilize and control the punching shield.

When you get hit, the Wedge absorbs the impact of the punch and also prevents the punching shield from shifting, giving you the stability and support you need.

In short, the Wedge is yet another example of the unparalleled attention to detail we put into every product we design.

Available in:

• RAPM Pro punching mitts

In gloves without laces, the wrist is often the weakest and most vulnerable part of the glove.

That is a problem if you want to prevent unnecessary strain on your wrist. Hence the Wrist Bolt!

With this innovation, Rival has extended the cuff of the glove higher than where the wrist – and most gloves – normally end.

This design – combined with the use of high-density foam – ensures that with Rival gloves featuring the Wrist Bolt, you get the maximum wrist support and protection that this type of construction can offer.

When Rival Boxing was founded, it was essential that they offered products, designs, innovations, and technologies never before seen in the boxing world.

Before the invention of the Wrist Lock by Rival, most gloves on the market with Velcro had only one simple flap that offered little wrist support and therefore barely mimicked the experience of a traditional lace-up glove.

Developing a Velcro system that could match the beauty and simplicity of a lace-up glove was a huge challenge. That’s where the Wrist Lock system came in.

When Rival produced their very first boxing glove, the RB1 – an extremely popular glove that has remained virtually unchanged since its introduction in 2003 – it was not only the first time a high-quality, professional glove was made without leather, but also the first time the new and revolutionary Wrist Lock system was integrated into the design.

In designing the glove, Rival founder and CEO Russ Anber used his years of gym experience to create a Velcro closure that resembled a traditional lace-up glove as much as possible in terms of safety, stability, and support. The simplicity and efficiency of the design sparked a revolution in the industry.

The Wrist Lock system consists of a Velcro closure with a piece of webbing threaded through a polypropylene loop. By pulling the loop, a fighter can tighten the glove evenly on both sides and secure it around the wrist as tightly as needed, ensuring maximum support, wrist stability, and comfort.

True to the philosophy of Rival Boxing, we continuously strive for evolution, improvement, and innovation.

Our years of experience "in the field" motivate us to go the extra mile and develop products that revolutionize the industry; hence the development of the Wrist Lock 2 system.

Inspired by the success of its big brother, the Original Wrist Lock, Rival has taken its innovative thinking to the next level.

Instead of sticking to a one-dimensional adjustment, Rival invented the double V-shaped strap.

Through a loop on both the thumb side and the opposite side of the glove, the Wrist Lock 2 ensures that both sides of the glove, from the thumb to the cuff, are evenly tightened when fastening the strap. This is similar to applying tape over the cuff of a professional boxing glove.

Rival Boxing is convinced that this system replicates the comfort and stability of a fully laced boxing glove as closely as possible in a Velcro glove.

Available in:

• RS11V Evolution Sparring boxing gloves
• RB11V Evolution bag gloves
• RB10 Intelli-shock bag gloves